Having more people beleive a particular thing has no influence on how true or untrue it is.
I beleive what I can observe, or what others observe and describe to me as long as it meets the scientific method. That is, is the experience repeatable? Can it be explained in a way that does not invalidate other verified observations (which themselves have been explained in a scientific way)? etc...

Science is not a "thing". You can't worship science any more than you can worship art or engineering. In any case, what good would worshipping science be since science won't gain anything from my worship and I won't gain anything from my worship?

The first five words were enough. Surely you realise that saying that Carl Sagan is more knowledgeable as a corpse (or was he cremated?) sounds ridiculous to those who don't beleive in an "afterlife"? It's like me trying to convince you that Jesus has now completely decomposed and doesn't exist at all (well, the atoms that made up his body do, but not in anything near the same form) outside the minds of those who "worship" him?

Sadly, that city and the surrounding area are already the subject of wars. And the people fighting those wars are following their beleifs so blindly that they can't see the futility.

Not necessarily...
Gravity can be repulsive at very high negative pressure (in more than one dimension) http://bustard.phys.nd.edu/Phys171/lectures/repulse.html
But for the purposes of a Gravity Tractor, you are correct, attractive only
/Pedant

Firstly, it is very possible that the people who instated Israel as a state were influenced by the prophesy of it's existence.
Secondly, Asteroids have hit before and will hit again, it is only the size of the asteroid and time from now until the hit that are variable.
Third, The bible is anecdote and not a good historical record. Therefore any "prophesies" within cannot be independantly verified and "The bible is right because it says so in the bible" is very flawed logic.
Finally, the reason that Jerusalem is so contentious is because of superstitious people putting too much faith in a book. There is absolutely nothing special about Jerusalem other than the billions of people who think that it is "holy" and cry out when zoning changes are made.
Do not confuse scientific predictions with mythology, they are not the same thing.

If Win7 is "Vista SP3" doesn't that mean that Microsoft also charges for service packs?

That's right, if we observe n planets, and there are still at least (n - 1) * 1000 planets that are unobserved, then the 1 in 1000 model might still be correct!

That is, even if every single one of the 1000 planets that we observe display a "1 in 1000" characteristic, the next 999,000 we see might not show that characteristic and therefore hold up the "1 in 1000", or we might go 1,000,000 planets seeing it, and then the next 999,000,000 without...

DSL Modem is going through a firewall/router that's not set up to forward BT ports? I'm not familiar with your setup, but in my experience dialup was always straight to the computer (windows firewall etc, where Azureus could ask for permission) where DSL was usually on a LAN setup with a router (which usually contains a builtin firewall)...

If you look closely in the developer preview (from IO) An error message pops up (about 13:48) down the bottom reading something like: "Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

I agree.

If you get busted stealing, then your account gets "suspended" while you're in jail (but you have to keep paying your subscription). Repeat offense = longer sentence. Perhaps lighter sentences for lower level thieves to allow people to "get into" thievery.

This makes it very unattractive to become a thief, but mirrors real life better. Unfortunately, it may make the game a lot less fun.

Shopkeepers spend their MMO time (which they pay for) gathering items, maintaining their shop etc, why shouldn't punishments for thieves be real-world too?

You might not like the original, but you might like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d82Lq2rVB_4

Do not look into laser with remaining eye!

Are you suggesting that our present species is less advanced than we will be in the future? How do you measure the (evolutionary) advancement of a species? Are we (humans) more advanced than bats, bees, hummingbirds, dolphins, extremophiles etc, etc? Devolving implies that we are getting worse, but with no way of telling worse vs better, the statement is meaningless.

In any case, if the species is "devolving" (presumably this means a measurably lower average intelligence across the population over a long period of time), you won't be alive long enough to notice so it really makes no difference anyway. You (as an individual in the population) also have a negligible impact on the average intelligence of the populace as a whole, particularly if (as you suggest with the word "devolving") the decline is genetic.

It's ok, we'll call the next one The Ninja Bay and should go under the radar (sonar?) for a fair while. I mean, *AA and the legal system base their judgment of an organisation's legality on its name right?

Exhibit A: Rocket Launcher == n00bstick

Unfortunatley, that relies on people using the correct TLD for their website...